Travis Deverell, who publishes under the pen name Shirtaloon, is an Australian author based in Tasmania. He returned to the University of Tasmania in his mid-thirties to complete an English degree, and began posting his LitRPG series He Who Fights with Monsters as a free web serial on Royal Road while between jobs. The series built a large following there and on Patreon before reaching bestseller status in print and audio, and Deverell has continued it across more than a dozen books.
